Reupholstered Rolling Office Chairs Are Really Cherry There’s something quite familiar and sweet about the following rolling office chairs. I’m sure the girl in me loooves all the bright and happy colors; the decor nerd in me loves their homage to retro design (I seem to remember the plastic one in school offices growing up – typically in a powder blue or white). I also think the ability to move and wheel about as I work appeals to my creative and non-static method of thinking. That being said, I offer today a quick glance at these very cherry chairs. Not only will we be bookmarking this fabulous post by Cheetah Is The New Black, we’re going dumpster diving and chair hunting on DiggersList to find these typically blasé-colored office chairs (above). Using the old cover as a template, simply reupholster with a fun, vintage fabric to create something super creative and boho to your work space. Believe it or not, this $10 find covered in baby sh*# brown vinyl (yech!) was simply primed, then painted with semi-gloss latex paint.
Clever and resourceful blogger Angela from The Painted House, then invited her kids, friends and husband (nice!) to draw whatever they wished all over it! How personal and fun! We vote this as “Before and After” of the month!Now we’ve got another item on our “must-hunt-for” list, the next time we’re off to the antique market! Thanks to HGTV host and designer, Emily Henderson, we also have a fantastic way to bring these oldie-but-goodie rolling chairs into the new and now! Click her name for the how-to! Lucky for us, for a respectable $425, we can purchase one of these retro cutie-pies and add instant style to our home or away office. This model also comes in 17 other colors including indigo, celery and orange…delightful! Note: either this, or keep your eyes peeled for an authentic vintage version. Here is a modern take on the MCM (mid-century modern) rolling desk chair. It certainly offers more cushy for the tushy and incentivizes a much longer work day due to its comfortable nature.
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Self Stick on Wheels My wife's office has solid hickory hardwood floors, and I'd like to protect the floor from her rolling office chair. What can be done to protect the floor? Should I even be concerned about the chair damaging the floor? In two old homes now I've shredded the wood floor under my chair, monster splinters eventually emerging. I work at home in semi-rural New Hampshire. I think they're very old pine floors, so softwood. I plan to try Shepherd Brand Urethane Casters after putty and repainting. From the manufacturer's site, "Nylon tread for carpeting, and urethane tread for hard floors." Much buzz on Amazon about these. Edit: After months with the new casters there are no new paint flakes or splinters. I haven't repainted the floor yet, but it appears these casters will do the trick. Replacing your chair's casters can help. Most chairs come with hard nylon casters, but softer rubber/polyurethane/neoprene casters are less likely to scratch or damage your floor.
I live in a house full of wood floors (engineered hardwood). If the floors are kept clean and the wheels of the chair also are kept clean, every little damage will ever happen to your floors. If your floors are perfectly smooth and any imperfection will bother you, I do recommend either a low pile or woven rug under the desk and chair. I say this, because if some sand or small rock gets between the chair caster and the floor it will mark it. You can always fill the small imperfection but a rug is a small insurance plan for that area of floor. I was initially worried about this, but I've had my office chair on hardwood for about 2 years without issue, with generally at least an hour to 4 hours use every day (and more when I occasionally work from home). It's a pretty typical chair with fairly hard plastic castors. I would either get some sort of "mat" or area rug. There are some plastic mats that are sold without the plastic spikes. There are also 'floating vinyls" or fiber floors that come in rolls (often at Home Depot) and they can just go on top of floor without adhesive.
You can cut them to size. Usually, their weight holds them down. I would not use a plastic mat, as I did because a tiny piece of something got under it and I must have rolled over it a dozen times and it left a bunch of annoying marks in my beautiful hardwood floor. I would use some sort of sacrificial mat, either a pre-made mat or a section of some laminate flooring material to cover the area that you will be using the chair. Of course I have bamboo floors so it blends in. The trouble is, no matter what you put down there, if it's a sunny room, your floor will age unevenly. I had one of those clear plastic mats down and when I removed it after a couple of years, a huge light spot was left behind. I have recently refinished the floor in this room and I'm reluctant to put anything down on the new floor--though maybe with the modern tools & chemicals it's fade-proof I don't know. But I think I have to expect some change of color over time. It's a very sunny room. Kept hoping I'd find something like casters with felt coated wheels.
I had no luck. Maybe I should invent such a thing, Lol. Bet they'd sell well. My office chair is also terribly loud rolling across the floor. If you're really really into a solution here, you want a Flexible Glass Chair Mat. It's that: glass you lay on the floor to protect it. Just Google that term. The first results lead to solutions. The chair mat is the way to go. You have to use roofing tacks hammered into the corners to hold it down, otherwise it will slide around and be annoying. Getting a mat is a good idea. If you don't do this what will happen is that dirt and sand particles adhere to the wheels of the chair and grind ruts in the wood creating bare spots. Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site (the association bonus does not count). Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead?